Performance Results


Gaming 75% Battleship	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 65% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (83rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 17 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 93.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	76.4% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	121% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
Memory	16GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 16GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

PC Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-8500-$174 43,089 User benchmarks, average bench 82% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 6 threads Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	93.7% Outstanding	Memory 91.8 1-Core 132 2-Core 258 90% 161 Pts	4-Core 514 8-Core 753 79% 634 Pts	64-Core 763 47% 763 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 93.7% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Zotac(19DA 1394) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1438 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 432.00 Performing below potential (36^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	76.4% Very good	Lighting 98.6 Reflection 102 Parallax 91.5 80% 97.2 fps	MRender 86.4 Gravity 89.3 Splatting 78.2 69% 84.6 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 76.4% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 872GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 467 480 481 484 469 482 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	121% Outstanding	Read 505 Write 434 Mixed 418 SusWrite 477 103% 459 MB/s	4K Read 39.5 4K Write 94.4 4K Mixed 54.8 180% 62.9 MB/s	DQ Read 371 DQ Write 336 DQ Mixed 349 263% 352 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 121% Great: 133%
WD Blue 500GB-$85 19,345 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 462GB free Firmware: X41110WD SusWrite @10s intervals: 472 340 306 293 291 293 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	104% Outstanding	Read 444 Write 445 Mixed 332 SusWrite 332 87% 389 MB/s	4K Read 37.3 4K Write 94.4 4K Mixed 47.4 167% 59.7 MB/s	DQ Read 338 DQ Write 298 DQ Mixed 249 206% 295 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 107%
Toshiba THNSN5256GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB 23,829 User benchmarks, average bench 109% 239GB free Firmware: 5KHA4101 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 354 227 222 228 223 228 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	146% Outstanding	Read 866 Write 764 Mixed 705 SusWrite 247 144% 646 MB/s	4K Read 42 4K Write 125 4K Mixed 60.4 207% 75.9 MB/s	DQ Read 842 DQ Write 605 DQ Mixed 719 538% 722 MB/s
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 146% Great: 141%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M378A1G43EB1-CPB 2x8GB 3,609 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	80.1% Excellent	MC Read 28.8 MC Write 30.6 MC Mixed 25 80% 28.1 GB/s	SC Read 18.8 SC Write 31.5 SC Mixed 25.3 72% 25.2 GB/s	Latency 64.3 62% 64.3 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 80.1% Great: 79%

L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 79%

Battleship

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 66%

Battle cruiser

RAM
Fury 2666 C16 2x8GBHyperX $75Bench 82%, 134,977 samples	252x
DDR4 2400 2OZ 2x8GBAdataBench 76%, 26,065 samples	162x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	149x

Value: 76% - Very good

Total price: $1,024

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16